Tuesday, August 21, 2007

...apartment(!/?)

So it would appear I have an apartment. Sort of. Well the guy I would be taking the room of hasn't gotten an apartment to move into on the 1st of September. Which sucks and meas I could possibly not have anywhere to live until the 15th of September. But the people in my future apartment are very nice and the guy (Wang) said that he would help me find a solution which isn't a week in a hostel bed.

After about 10 minutes fucking around with my webcam I got to see my future roommates in a linguistic cornucopia of English, German, and I think (though I could be wrong) Cantonese. Basically I sat there like a dumb fuck and didn't say anything because my brain doesn't work well with multiple languages, particularly when I don't understand one of them. Luckily, I'm damn cute, that probably didn't hurt the situation.

Fulbright recommends not getting roommates who want to "practice english" with you. Instead you should speak German at home. But what if I get them to teach me the basics of a third language? I think it's worth the trade-off.

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